Brooklyn Style Pizza

[Laurence Horn]

>The irony being that there are very few taxi drivers with any sort of
>"New York accents" nowadays.
>
>In any case, Domino's Pizza is certainly the worst pizza in
>Brooklyn... and there's plenty of bad pizza there.

There's also good pizza in Brooklyn, at old Italian restaurants,
luncheonettes, and such, but I don't know that there's anything
distinctively Brooklynese about it--typically, it will be like the
Manhattan and Bronx places, either thick "Sicilian" style or
thin-crust.  But then again the purportedly distinctive "Brooklyn
accent" is a bit mythical as well, as far as I know.

LH

>(But nothing as
>bad as the sugary-sauce variety back home in the midwest... "dessert
>pizza" I call it!)
>
>DD
>Missourian @ NYC
>
>At 10:29 AM -0500 12/5/07, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>
>>At 11:47 PM -0600 12/4/07, Dan Goodman wrote:
>>>In the Twin Cities, Domino's Pizza has a coupon for Brooklyn style
>>>pizza.  "Large Brooklyn-style Hand Stretched Thin Crust, Big Foldable
>>>Slices, Top it With Extra Large Brooklyn-style Sausage or Pepperoni
>>>Topping."
>>>
>>>This is the first I've heard of Brooklyn having a distinct style of pizza.
>>>
>>Starting a few months ago, they've been running (or did run--I think
>>the campaign is over around here) a TV commercial for these
>>Brooklyn-style pizzas, featuring taxi drivers with "Brooklyn accents".
>>
>>LH
>>
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